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Apple Announces SDK for iPhone

Oct 17, 2007, 11:27 AM by (staff)

Today Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted an open letter on the Apple Web site explaining that Apple will make a software developer kit available for the iPhone in February 2008. The kit will allow third-party developers to create native applications that will run on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The reason the kit won't be available until February is because Apple wants to be sure that the iPhone is protected from malicious attacks while still being open to third-party development. Jobs claims that creating an SDK that does both will take time.

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BluetoothGuy

Oct 17, 2007, 12:59 PM

protection or profit?

Are they doing this roll-out with a concern for "protection" or Profit? My guess is the latter.

vzwcripplesphones

Any time that some one throws a phone out on the market, somebody will begin to mod it, script it, and play around with it. With that said, both protection and profit are a part of an SDK. The profit of an SDK is that it creates an aftermarket for pro...
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dublea

Its going to be both. They want to protect the iPhone so that it can only be used on ATT (which is illegal and they are currently being sued over) and to profit by allowing more software to be developed which will increase usability and draw in more c...
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arsimckhoi

what kind of statment is that? of course it's for profit... to make you have to protect the product why is this hard for some customers to understand. v38

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